Whether you are a Yorkshire resident or a visitor, let My Yorkshire be your guide.

GENEALOGY LINKS

This site is a directory of genealogy links to mostly on-line databases of surnames, parish registers, census returns, passenger lists, military records etc. There are more than 30,000 links.

WATER POWERED MILLS OF THE UPPER CALDER VALLEY AND GREENWOOD & SUTCLIFFE FAMILIES

AN EXCELLENT WEBSITE

Includes studies of the old mills and the people who owned and worked in them. Also very detailed information on the Greenwood and Sutcliffe families, and a study on handloom weaving.

RARE BOOKS ON CD

CD rom versions of old and rare books associated with Yorkshire, and modern photographs. Produced by Colin Hinson. His CD's include one containing 4 books by John Travis, which is fully machine searchable. More details HERE

CRABTREE & RIGG FAMILIES, & NEW TOWNLEY FARM

This is a new family website containing information about Jonas Crabtree, his son Lucas, and Margaret Alice Rigg. There are excellent pictures of New Townley Farm, Todmorden.

ROCHDALE CANAL

Potted history, information, news and masses of lovely photographs of the canal from Sowerby to Manchester. Also featuring Rochdale.

ROOTSCHAT.COM

An easy to use messaging forum for everyone researching family or local history. The focus is on Ireland and the British Isles. Todmorden appears in the West Yorkshire section. An excellent free resource where everyone is very helpful.

PENNINE WATERWAYS

Canals of the South Pennines, including a wonderful virtual tour of the whole of the Rochdale Canal. A not-to-be missed site.

BLACKSHAW, COLDEN & HEPTONSTALL SLACK

Keith Stansfield can be contacted by email on this link. Whilst he is not offering a professional research service, he wishes to give others the benefit of his own research by sharing information from his large data base of census, baptism, burial and marriage transcriptions. The area he covers is mainly Blackshaw, Colden, and Heptonstall Slack, plus the whole of the 1841 and 1851 census of the Township of Stansfield .

HEBDEN BRIDGE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

They have an extensive and ever-expanding collection of documents, images, audio recordings, and other artifacts relevant to the history of Hebden Bridge and the surrounding area. It is well-catalogued and freely available for the use of members and for others by arrangement. The site also contains a virtually complete transcription of the memorial inscriptions at Heptonstall Church.

LORD FAMILY

Belinda Cohen's family website. This includes a wonderful biography of Todmorden born Simeon Lord, transported to Australia in 1790 for minor theft. Not to be missed if you are interested in the Lord and Fielden families before 1790, or Simeon's Australian descendants.

TODMORDEN.ORG

Todmorden.org attempts to list everything on the internet that is related to Todmorden in West Yorkshire.

THE 1879 ZULU WAR

A site dedicated to pursuing memorials to those involved in the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 - a simple gazetteer of where their last resting places are, and much more besides.

A LITTLE OF STONESWOOD MILL'S HISTORY

The website produced by the current occupiers of the old mill, P&M Services. There is a little of the history and some photographs.

CALDERDALE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

Calderdale FHS covers the interests of local genealogy & provides numerous research sources both on paper, on computer & over the Internet. Full details can be seen on the website

CHARLESTOWN AND EASTWOOD

Charlestown Local History Group, with plenty of information, history and photographs of Charlestown (Hebden Bridge area) and Eastwood (Stansfield).

JOHN TAYLOR BELL FOUNDERS

The world's leading bell founders. The peal of bells at Christ Church, Todmorden, were taken to Towcester in Northants. when the church closed. The story of their life at Towcester can be read by clicking on this link. John Taylor Bell Founders have produced a CD of various bell ringing, including the peal at Towcester with the old Todmorden bells. Details of the CD appear on their site.

YORKSHIRE GENUKI

The ancient Parish of Rochdale page. "ROCHDALE, a parish in the county of Lancashire, and additionally placed in the Genuki Yorkshire pages so as to hold the places within its boundaries which are actually in the old West Riding of Yorkshire." Excellent site for those interested in Todmorden and area.

TODMORDEN ALBUM

Images of Todmorden from the past, collected and selected by Roger Birch. The Todmorden Album collection in its entirety contains some 4,000 images dating back to the 1860s, with many from the early twentieth century.

ON-LINE PARISH CLERKS

OnLine Parish Clerks project for the County of Lancashire. This site aims to extract and preserve the records from the various parishes and to provide online access to that data, FREE of charge, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire.

MILNROW, LANCASHIRE

History, photographs, and general information on the town.

ENGLISH AND WELSH REGISTER OFFICES

Birth, Death and Marriage certificates can be ordered (in most cases) from the offices listed for £7.

HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ROCHDALE

A 114-year-old, six hundred page volume cataloguing the history of the Ancient Parish. Written by Henry Fishwick and reproduced here by Rochdale Local Studies.

LANCASHIRE PARISH REGISTER SOCIETY

The Society's main objectives are to transcribe Lancashire Registers, edit and publish these, and give assistance with preservation of the originals.

LANCASHIRE GENUKI

The Todmorden and Walsden page on GENUKI

TOUCHSTONES ROCHDALE

An exciting arts and heritage centre including an excellent Local Studies centre for the Rochdale district including Walsden and Todmorden

CALDERDALE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

Calderdale on the Web

ENGLAND IGI BATCH NUMBERS

IGI Batch numbers for England

WEST YORKSHIRE ARCHIVE SERVICE

Vast searchable collection of documents relating to West Yorkshire including Todmorden and Walsden

ABOUT LANCASHIRE - LANCASHIRE LINKS LIST

This list is about Lancashire - its past, present and future. There are nearly 1000 links to pages about Lancashire on this list.

LANCASHIRE RECORDS OFFICE

Vast collection of archived documents relating to Lancashire including Todmorden and Walsden

MILLTOWN MEMORIES

Mill Town Memories is a glossy magazine devoted entirely to the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. Each issue contains a collection of photographs, articles and memories. Well worth a look.

PHOTO-ARK

On-line image archive of pre-1950 photos and postcards of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, plus military and regimental images. Also, the links page has many interesting links to other genealogical and image sites, plus screen saver downloads.

DAVID GREENHALGE'S PAGES

A site which gives information about places in Lancashire and elsewhere, data, pictures and other interesting information.

CROWTHER FAMILY

A website created by Howard Browne, a descendant of Philip Crowther of Todmorden, that gives comprehensive information on Philip's Todmorden ancestors and American descendants